Vtg Mid Century Original Signed American Artist Robert Riggs Watercolor Mule
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Up for your consideration is this Original Signed Watercolor by Robert Riggs (American, 1896-1970)This piece depicts an Arabian scene. This is a very nice piece.Signed in the bottom right corner, "To Old Alex(?) Robert Riggs. Also some other words that are hard to make out.It is professionally framed (very nice frame) and matted. It measures as a whole, 24" X 18"Taken from rogallery, " Known for his paintings of prize-fighting and circus-genre scenes and lithography of gigantic size compositions, Robert Riggs had a highly successful career as an artist, especially in the 1930s and 40s. His painting "The Brown Bomber," showed the boxing victory of Joe Louis over Max Schmeling. This is one of the paintings that earned Riggs election to the National Academy of Design in 1946He was born in Decatur, Illinois and as a young man ran away from home and joined the circus. He studied at the James Millikin University in Illinois and then trained at the Art Students League in New York, but his study was interrupted by Army service in World War I. He stayed overseas and attended the Academie Julian in Paris and then returned to the United States where he settled in Philadelphia and worked for N.W. Ayer & Sons, an advertising agency for whom he did numerous illustrations. He was active in the Germantown Boys Club, where he worked with an Indian
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